Psy 265 Gender Identity Research Paper
Gender Identity
Jamie Rapp
PSY/265
March 30, 2014
Sharon Belden
Gender Identity
Gender starts in the womb as one develops. While the anatomy is most times simple to ell whom is female and male the mental area is different. “Gender is the psychological sense of being female or being male and the rules society ascribes to gender,” (Rathus, 2011). Gender identity is one’s own sense of their gender.
Gender identity is when one person identifies their own gender regardless of what their anatomy is. Anatomical sex is based on anatomy itself. The anatomy of a female or male including private areas. These are different because ne is based on one’s mind and another or the body.
Genetics plays a role with different genres like the transformer, SRU, and Sox Nine provide links to DNA. The environment affects gender identity by seeing the social norm of the male and female behavior. People …show more content…
nurture their children a female to do female things and males to do make things. While the environment, nurture, and society conveys to the norm of female and male identity there are instances of mix-ups that create gender crosses. Gender crosses when a male is born a male, but wants to be female and a female wants to be male.
Gender roles are complex areas of behavior for males and females. Among with gender identity and gender roles come the stereotypes from the social aspect. For males who are active are considered opinionated and if he is arrogant is quick. For females who are fickle are talkative and if she is affectionate she is nervous. The difference between gender roles and gender identity is that the identity is what one recognizes as their identity of female or male. Gender roles are what society shows a person about how they should behave as a female or male.
Sexism is when someone judges one’s gender. Sexism and gender roles go together, I that when using stereotypes one 's mind also uses, the behaviors to judge based on gender roles. While this is more behavior and judgement gender roles and gender identity are different. Gender roles and identity are what one feels and recognizes to the position on how they should behave.
A person’s using the continuum of masculinity femininity is used as a scale and on one end of the female link is more feminine and more masculine on the male end.
In the middle could be both female and male. This describes traits or characteristics like being a leader, organizer, provider, and so on. The traits for myself would seem more masculine than feminine because I am an assertive person who is organized, aggressive, and has a strong personality. I am also different in a way that I do care and have compassion towards others. I believe one 's personality has more involvement than just the continuum count.
Psychological androgyny is when one’s personality traits are capable of being two different things at once. For example, one who is aggressive is also nurturant at the same time no matter the gender. Advantages of this area is that one can use many traits to achieve a desire or talent. They can pool in more traits than one who is not androgyny. They may have higher self esteem and more stable. They may also have more confidence about stressful areas and
decisions.
Gender identity in my own life was somewhat complicated. I was born a girl and look like a girl. My upbringing by my parents was different. I did female things at home an\d then was doing male things outside. My mom raised me as a girl to dress, act, and talk. I never felt comfortable like that. My dad was a contractor and was raised to work like a man, act like a man, dress and speak like a man. Essentially, I am a tomboy as people call it. As I got older I preferred male activities and had more male friends than females. This did not affect my relationships with men. I have several boyfriends. The only issue I ever had was doing certain male activities better than they could. Since being an adult I am still more masculine than feminine and have to control how I act in certain places. I can maintain a relationship a care for my children.
While gender identity people do not have issues with as much as the society 's version of how you should be and pass judgement on the taboo or so called not normal people. This world should be an open minded subject of acceptance, but that is only a dream. People fight every day over his or her preferred gender preference.
References
Rathus, S. A., Nevid, J. S., and Fichner-Rathus, L. (2011). Human sexuality in a world of diversity (8th ed.) Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Jamie Rapp
PSY/265
March 30, 2014
Sharon Belden
Gender Identity
Gender starts in the womb as one develops. While the anatomy is most times simple to ell whom is female and male the mental area is different. “Gender is the psychological sense of being female or being male and the rules society ascribes to gender,” (Rathus, 2011). Gender identity is one’s own sense of their gender.
Gender identity is when one person identifies their own gender regardless of what their anatomy is. Anatomical sex is based on anatomy itself. The anatomy of a female or male including private areas. These are different because ne is based on one’s mind and another or the body.
Genetics plays a role with different genres like the transformer, SRU, and Sox Nine provide links to DNA. The environment affects gender identity by seeing the social norm of the male and female behavior. People …show more content…
nurture their children a female to do female things and males to do make things. While the environment, nurture, and society conveys to the norm of female and male identity there are instances of mix-ups that create gender crosses. Gender crosses when a male is born a male, but wants to be female and a female wants to be male.
Gender roles are complex areas of behavior for males and females. Among with gender identity and gender roles come the stereotypes from the social aspect. For males who are active are considered opinionated and if he is arrogant is quick. For females who are fickle are talkative and if she is affectionate she is nervous. The difference between gender roles and gender identity is that the identity is what one recognizes as their identity of female or male. Gender roles are what society shows a person about how they should behave as a female or male.
Sexism is when someone judges one’s gender. Sexism and gender roles go together, I that when using stereotypes one 's mind also uses, the behaviors to judge based on gender roles. While this is more behavior and judgement gender roles and gender identity are different. Gender roles and identity are what one feels and recognizes to the position on how they should behave.
A person’s using the continuum of masculinity femininity is used as a scale and on one end of the female link is more feminine and more masculine on the male end.
In the middle could be both female and male. This describes traits or characteristics like being a leader, organizer, provider, and so on. The traits for myself would seem more masculine than feminine because I am an assertive person who is organized, aggressive, and has a strong personality. I am also different in a way that I do care and have compassion towards others. I believe one 's personality has more involvement than just the continuum count.
Psychological androgyny is when one’s personality traits are capable of being two different things at once. For example, one who is aggressive is also nurturant at the same time no matter the gender. Advantages of this area is that one can use many traits to achieve a desire or talent. They can pool in more traits than one who is not androgyny. They may have higher self esteem and more stable. They may also have more confidence about stressful areas and
decisions.
Gender identity in my own life was somewhat complicated. I was born a girl and look like a girl. My upbringing by my parents was different. I did female things at home an\d then was doing male things outside. My mom raised me as a girl to dress, act, and talk. I never felt comfortable like that. My dad was a contractor and was raised to work like a man, act like a man, dress and speak like a man. Essentially, I am a tomboy as people call it. As I got older I preferred male activities and had more male friends than females. This did not affect my relationships with men. I have several boyfriends. The only issue I ever had was doing certain male activities better than they could. Since being an adult I am still more masculine than feminine and have to control how I act in certain places. I can maintain a relationship a care for my children.
While gender identity people do not have issues with as much as the society 's version of how you should be and pass judgement on the taboo or so called not normal people. This world should be an open minded subject of acceptance, but that is only a dream. People fight every day over his or her preferred gender preference.
References
Rathus, S. A., Nevid, J. S., and Fichner-Rathus, L. (2011). Human sexuality in a world of diversity (8th ed.) Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.